Rubik's Cube
Cubular Puzzle Makes A Comeback
Erica Noonan of The Boston Globe writes:
He hadn't even been born when the Cube's popularity peaked in 1981, selling 250 million units worldwide, with a force akin to phenomena such as the yo-yo, the hula hoop, Pac-Man, Pokemon, and the Harry Potter books. The Newton South High freshman shrugs when confronted with the historic significance of his hobby. "It's just something I think is fun,'' he said.
It's been a long, strange journey for the Cube, invented back in 1974 by Hungarian professor Erno Rubik. After a worldwide selling blitz, which included dozens of knockoff versions, the puzzle fell out of fashion and distribution in the late 1980s.
That a new generation of kids is appropriating the Cube, and even declaring a renaissance of coolness, pleases Dan Knights, who was crowned speed-cubing world champion at this summer's World Rubik's Game Championships in Toronto. Knights was barely out of diapers when Cube mania swept the United States, and he didn't even pick up a cube until 1999.
Now, the puzzle has a unique appeal to Generation Y...
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